Germany Guide
Bremen
Paula-Modersohn-Becker Museum
Address: Böttcherstrasse
Opening time: Tues– Sun 11am–6pm
Price: €5
Website: www.pmbm.de
Designed by Bernhard Hoetger, the Paula-Modersohn-Becker Museum contains Roselius's collection of the artist from nearby Worpswede, including a self-portrait painted on her sixth wedding anniversary in the self-containment of pregnancy, a year before she died in 1907. Upstairs are sculptures and ceramics by Hoetger; he also cast the bronze sculptures for the foyer. The same ticket gets you into Roselius's revamped Gothic merchant's house, Roselius-Haus (same hours). Here, panels by Cranach and Westphalia's late-Gothic master Conrad von Soest fight a losing battle against rich wallpaper and fiddly furniture. A Pietà by Tilman Riemenschneider fares better in an isolated alcove, a typically powerful work by Germany's greatest late-Gothic sculptor, which infuses Gothic piety with Renaissance humanism.